[sdiy] Digital synthesis using statistical functions?

[karl dalen]

Interesting!

Chaos based wave terrain , or some thing?

Any points to the Steinbreener thing, all i
got where pointers to curing hart diseases?

KD

> Ben Lincoln <blincoln at eventualdecline.com>

> working on some image-processing software, and one of the
> things it does is statistical processing on a per-pixel
> basis through a cube of multispectral image data. At some
> point, I started to wonder "what would happen if I ran audio
> through these functions?"
> 
> It's been quite awhile since I was heavily in touch with
> the synthesis world, so I figure maybe someone is just going
> to tell me that I've "reinvented Steinbrenner-Kreutzman
> synthesis", or words to that effect, but I did a quick web
> search and didn't see any immediate evidence of other people
> using this technique.
> 
> I've just barely scratched the surface, but some of the
> results were interesting enough that I posted sample mp3s
> and an extremely basic Windows command-line utility for
> performing the synthesis here:
> 
> http://www.beneaththewaves.net/Projects/Statistical_Audio_Synthesis.html
> 
> Is this already a well-known technique? I'd love to see
> modules for it in something like StudioFactory, where the
> inputs could be controlled in realtime.
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